IoT Device Takeovers Surge 100 Percent in 2020

Connected cameras, refrigerators and other seemingly-mundane internet-of-things IoT devices are a cybercriminal favorite this year, with new research showing a sharp increase 100 percent in IoT infections observed on wireless networks. IoT devices are now responsible for 32.72 percent of all...

Microsoft Identifies New Malware Dropping Sefnit Botnet

Plenty has been written about the Sefnit malware family and its favor with using Tor to mask communication, as well as the money it’s made for criminals via click-fraud schemes. Sefnit, however, has had a pair of accomplices that until recently were regarded as harmless programs by most security...

Microsoft Report Examines Socio-Economic Relationships to Malware Infections

Tired of all those malware and vulnerability reports that count how many of each have been reported to security companies? Well, Microsoft has taken a different tack in its latest Security Intelligence Report SIR by globally comparing regions’ relative security against socio-economic factors...

Denis Nazarov

Gathering his statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network, Denis Nazarov, head of Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-Malware Research US, compared infection rates on x86 and x64 versions of Windows while describing Kernel Patch Protection technology...

Video: New Banking Trojan Caught Breaking CAPTCHA

A new banking Trojan variant can bypass CAPTCHA, as demonstrated by a video posted today by security firm Websense on their Security Labs blog. Once downloaded to the machine, Cridex, a data-stealing Trojan, will track content from various web forms. Cridex also downloads a ‘spamming module’ to t...

AutoRun Infections Plummet Following Upgrade

A mid-February AutoRun update has had a dramatic effect on malware infection rates on the XP and Vista platforms, reducing infection rates using the AutoRun feature by as much as 68% across Windows platforms, according to Microsoft. Infections via the AutoRun feature in systems running Windows XP...

Southern Cities Have High Malware Rates

An analysis of more than one million malware infections in the United States shows Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama have the highest malware infection rates in the United States. Read the full article. Help Net Security...